Released files indicate FBI spying on activists (Yes! Weekly / NC)

[struggle4progress]

Jordan Green
Staff Writer

<snip> An FBI file released by the agency on Sarah Bardwell, an anti-war organizer and member of the Denver chapter of Food Not Bombs, indicates the agency’s interest in the group’s connection with various protests and other activist groups, along with a suspicion that the group might be connected with plans to disrupt the Republican and Democratic conventions and the 2004 presidential election. Bardwell obtained the file through a Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, request. <snip>

The synopsis for a subsequent report filed on Dec. 7, 2004 is stated as: “to document information regarding Sarah Bardwell and Food Not Bombs.” The report notes that Colorado has four Food Not Bombs groups, that three individuals were arrested at an anti-war protest at which Bardwell was listed as ‘a point of contact,’ and that her home address was associated with Food Not Bombs and Derailer Bicycle Collective.

Bardwell could not be reached for comment on May 19. A person who answered the phone at her home in Denver said told YES! Weekly that Bardwell was possibly visiting family in the Asheville area of North Carolina. Contact persons at the Asheville and Boone chapters of Food Not Bombs said they were not aware that she was in the state.

Food Not Bombs describes itself as “part of a larger, growing revolutionary movement” and an organization whose “hundreds of autonomous chapters share free vegetarian food with hungry people and protest war and poverty.” The organization is opposed to economic globalization, restrictions on immigration and ecological destruction. <snip>

http://www.yesweekly.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=235&TM=85793.55

[DoYouEverWonder]

1. She must be a very dangerous person

after all she was a member of the Derailer Bicycle Collective and we all know how dangerous bike riders are.

:sarcasm off:

[struggle4progress]

2. The idea of sharing free vegetarian food with hungry people ..

and protesting war and poverty strikes terror into the heart of everyone who believes in The Ownership Society ...

[ClintonTyree]

3. Hi agent Mike....

don't for one minute think that this site isn't monitored as well. Everyone say good morning to Agent Mike! :hi:

[Deja Q]

4. Hey Agent Mike, how's your partner - Agent Carol?

:D

[struggle4progress]

7. Can't ya get a real job, Agent Mike? Jeepers ... eom

[tanyev]

5. Feeding the hungry?

Egad! What a troublemaker. Kind of like Jesus (the real Jesus). Of course, they kept him under pretty tight surveillance, too, until they finally just killed him.

[rodeodance]

6. is this because of provisions of the Patriot act??

i want to know if these protestors who are/were under survailance are so because of the Patriot Act provisions!